Colin Cameron (Malawian politician)
| Colin Cameron | |
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| Minister of Works and Transport | |
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In office 1961–1964 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Robert Perceval Armitage |
| Prime Minister | Hastings Banda |
| Minister of Works | |
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In office 1964 – 29 July 1964 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Glyn Smallwood Jones |
| Prime Minister | Hastings Banda |
| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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In office 1961–1964 |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 1964–1964 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 August 1933 Lanark, Scotland |
| Political party |
Malawi Congress Party Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Alison Cameron |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Colin Cameron (born 24 August 1933) is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served as a Minister and MP in Malawi in the early 1960s.
Born in Lanark in Scotland, Cameron attended Uddingston Grammar School and went on to gain a Bachelor of Law from the University of Glasgow in 1957. Cameron moved to Nyasaland after seeing an advert in the Glasgow Herald for a lawyer in Blantyre for a salary much higher than the one he had been offered in Glasgow, which would allow him to get married. His application for immigration to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was approved in June 1957.
Once in Nyasaland, he travelled widely within the country and became sympathetic to the independence movement. He represented several nationalists in their trials following their arrests during the State of Emergency in March 1959. He was also a member of the Church of Central African Presbyterian, which he joined in 1959. In 1960 his employment contract expired and he returned to Scotland. However, Hastings Banda invited him back to Nyasaland in 1961 to run in the general elections that year. Although Banda initially asked Cameron to run in the Blantyre constituency against Michael Hill Blackwood, Cameron requested that he be given a seat with a realistic change of winning, and was instead nominated in the Soche constituency, where he ran as a pro-Malawi Congress Party independent. Cameron succeeded in winning one of the eight seats on the higher roll (largely reserved for European and Asian voters), and was appointed Minister of Works and Transport, later becoming Minister of Transport and Communications.
In the 1964 elections Cameron was re-elected, the only European to be elected as an MCP candidate. Following the elections, he was appointed Minister of Works, and was the only European member of the first post-independence cabinet.
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